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Vietnam Hit by multiple landslides after extreme rainfall, intensifying the human impact

Vietnam has experienced one of its most severe sequences of rainfall-induced hazards in decades, with prolonged storms triggering extensive flooding and more than a dozen landslides across Lam Dong p...

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Delhi Metro’s precision tunnelling: A major engineering breakthrough beneath an operating corridor

The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has completed one of its most demanding underground works to date as part of the Phase 4 expansion. Engineers successfully advanced a Tunnel Boring Machine (TB...

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Lithium beneath a supervolcano: Geologic processes behind the $1.5 trilion McDermitt Caldera discovery

The confirmation of an exceptionally large lithium deposit within the McDermitt Caldera is reshaping current understanding of mineral formation in volcanic terrains. Recent studies estimate that the...

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Afaahiti hillside collapse leaves eight dead as saturated slopes fail in Tahiti

A catastrophic landslide in the village of Afaahiti, on Tahiti’s southeastern coast, has left at least eight people dead and several others missing after saturated hillside slopes collapsed during th...

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Record floods and landslides devastate Southeast Asia as death toll surpasses 600

Southeast Asia is facing one of its most severe flood–landslide seasons in recent years, with more than 600 fatalities confirmed across Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia. In particular, Sr...

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New Release: GeoStudio 2025.2

GeoStudio 2025.2 makes modelling more accurate, automation easier, and the software accessible to more users worldwide. It introduces a 3D Sweep Option, improvements to the GeoStudio Python scripting...

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Vienna metro 3D model now spans half the city

Discover how cutting-edge geological modelling is guiding Vienna’s metro extension from concept to construction, helping bridge uncertainties and build client trust. At this year’s World Tunnel Congr...

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Encinal High School Stadium ground improvement solution to address seismicity concerns

Keller collaborated with the geotechnical engineer to design a ground improvement solution that addressed seismicity concerns, as required by the California Geological Survey (CGS). As part of a lar...

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Ground improvement at the city of Hamilton bus maintenance and storage facility

After discovering differing ground conditions, Keller provided an alternative design for the new bus maintenance and storage facility at the City of Manilton. The City of Hamilton constructed a new b...

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Dewatering and earth retention solutions at Atlantic Park Surf

Keller provides dewatering and earth retention solutions at a new wave park, located just two blocks from where the Atlantic Ocean and Chesapeake Bay converge. A 2.67-acre surf lagoon joins the beac...

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New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and & Monitoring 2025

On November 17-20 2025, UC Berkeley Faculty and collaborators will be offering again a short course on "New Technologies for Geotechnical Infrastructure Sensing and Monitoring". The course was offere...

Education

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Driven Piles

Driven piles are prefabricated structural elements (e.g., steel H-piles, steel pipe, open or closed end, and prestressed/precast concrete piles) that are installed by impact or vibratory driving t...

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Numerical Analysis of a Cooling Tower Foundation Using FEM

This case study presents the application of the Finite Element Method (FEM) to design a ring foundation for a 185-meter-tall cooling tower located in Opole, Poland. The project faced notable geotechn...

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Practical Examples

This article showcases a practical example of FEA application in line with Eurocode 7 (EC7) requirements, focusing on the ultimate limit state (ULS) design of a deep multi-propped retaining wall in C...

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Considerations and Applications of FEA

Setting up an FE model in geotechnical engineering is a process that requires careful consideration of many factors including the need for FE analysis, the objectives of the modeling effort, and the...

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Numerical Insights into Piled Foundations Partially Embedded in Rock

Understanding the behavior of piled foundations embedded in rock is critical for safe and optimized geotechnical design and in particular when traditional soil-based assumptions fall short. While pil...

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The Mameyes, Puerto Rico, landslide, 1985

The Mameyes Landslide was a catastrophic rock-block slide that occurred at about 3:30 a.m. on Monday, October 7, 1985, in the Mameyes residential area on the outskirts of Ponce, Puerto Rico. Trigg...

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Permeation Grouting

Permeation or pressure grouting is a ground improvement technique involving the injection of low-viscosity grout materials, such as particulate suspensions, colloidal mixes, or chemical solutions,...

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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering

This fully updated second edition provides an introduction to geotechnical earthquake engineering for first-year graduate students in geotechnical or earthquake engineering graduate programs with a l...

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2024 Geotechnical Business Directory

This unique annual business directory is published by GeoWorld, the professional network for geotechnical engineers, which currently includes 37,000+ professionals and 1,000+ companies and organizatio...

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2025 Special Edition USA & Canada Geotechnical Business Directory

This unique annual business directory is published by GeoWorld, the professional network for geotechnical engineers, which currently includes 40,500+ professionals and 1,100+ companies and organizatio...